. ♪ ♪ >>> here with us now, bloomberg correspondent willem marx who is the co-author of "balochistan at a cross roads." >> 99% of people watching this couldn't tell you where balochistan is. where is it? >> it's a region within pakistan, on the border of iran and afghanistan. very thinly populated. you don't know much about it. in terms of scales to give you an idea, it's the size of montana and wouliyoming combine. it's a huge area. >> looking at the book, you talk about it's like the moon. some of the shots you've taken? >> yeah, it's very mountainous and desert. and the home of the insurgency of the pakistani central government have been there for about seven years now. we've got pictures from the book. these are people living in incredibly difficult situations. they're treated as second-class citizens by pakistan's government. over the last seven or eight years they've picked up arms against the state. it's not a war we hear much about. it's very difficult for journalists to get there. people like myself who have spent time there have subsequently will be blacklisted. >> what hav